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Tell Quotes by Bill Bryson
- I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell…
- You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection…
- As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used…
- I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I still had my…
- Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.
- ...if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of…
- When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
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- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them,… — Dave Attell
- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew… — Chinua Achebe
- A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're… — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood
- You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood
- 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' — Wystan Hugh Auden